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» Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, April 9, 1984 Stereo pillow used to aid reviving of coma victims R.l. by Paul Dirmeyei United Press International LONDON — British hospi tals are using speaker-equipped pillows to revive comatose pa tients by playing their favorite music, a doctor said Sunday. The pillows, available in ste reo with miniature speakers for each ear or in mono with only one speaker, are also being used for long-term bedridden pa tients. “While headphones cut the wearer off from the world, the pillow can bring the real world back into the intensive care ward, which is quite an unreal place,” said Dr. Donald Clarke, director of the British Life As surance Trust for Health Edu cation. “The pillow is far more com fortable than headphones, which cannot be worn all that PRoblEM PREqNANCy? 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John Burton, director of the British company Pillowsound, which is manufacturing the pil low, initially developed it for pop music lovers who liked to lounge in bed. “We now think the biggest future is with disabled and el derly people, who can lie back, head on pillow, and listen to their favorite programs and music without disturbing oth ers,” he said. I COULD (AY Ot/r H&E FOR MiTlfeR HOUR. BYrnm, \ VJtiEfe'S &LPM? K/EVERMfAiD htmt H6 C0Me5 MM! r T/) RcADY ft)R. FtirflMTHESJAllL IRA wounds judge, kills girl United I akeo eologisi 'al attei ncemer ntains 20,000 his I fmpted 1 long- ;an, Jon take: luring i jj adopt e firs led, but ing Arl< d all tl ies abot idngjac :r the d ,s in 0 United Press International BEL.FAST, Northern Ireland — Two Irish Republican Army gunmen critically wounded a Belfast judge and killed his daughter Sunday in a terrorist attack carried out as his wife watched during the family’s walk home from church. \ The two gunmen forced to the ground and shot Tom Tra vers and his daughter, Mary, 20, as they neared their house in a fashionable suburb south of the city after attending mass at St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic church, witnesses said. Travers was rushed to hospi tal and listed in critical condi tion after emergency surgery. Think you’re pregnant? Use Predictor In-Home Pregnancy Test. It’s the same as a hospital test. You’re on your own for the first time and life is a lot different now. 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The IRA, an outlawed Cath olic paramilitary group seeking to end British rule in northern Ireland, issued a statement from the Belfast Republican Press Center saying its gunmen carried out the attack. “The Belfast brigade of the Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today’s gun at tack upon resident magistrate Tom Travers.” Police did not immediately comment on the claim. Mary Travers died soon after the shooting. Police said they body,” arrested a woman who was walking a dog near the scene of the shooting but gave no details. The IRA statement appeared to indicate the killing of Mary Travers was accidental. "It is be lieved although not certain that the bullet which f a t a 11 y wounded his daughter passed through Mr. Travers’ be the statement said. Although he is a Catholic, as a magistrate Travers would have been an IRA target be cause his duties involved deal ing with terrorist cases. The shooting occurred close to the spot where a Protestant judge, William Doyle, was gunned down on a Sunday early last year as he was, too, walking home from church. The IRA claimed responsibility for that attack as well. A woman who witnessed the shooting told reporters the at tackers lay waiting at the en trance of a tennis clubneai Travers’ home. “The gunmen came out! the entrance to the tenniso and forced the man and young woman to the gre the woman said. “They stooped down and fired an her of shots. The two gun ran away down the avenue." | United 1 fREEN 1 of a ich fieui Police said two handgunsl | c been found near the scent [montl the shooting but declinedfc engii comment on reports thatil |f ree chi had been found ontheamsT woman. News reports gested the woman may been an accomplice who carrying the guns away fi the scene. 5eter ar rge 1 After the shooting of D| I last year several Protestamp I ticians suggested that Si. Ill 11, id’s parishioners had cons™ 1 to help the attackers. ipped by icken re Jr way l n!Milas, v "y Wi jnmate, of theii ack atto Mail VALLEY GOLF DRIVING RANGE \ Doctor may testify pi •in Lucas trial today • * United Press International Mon.-Fri. 12-9pm Sat. 10am-9pm Sun. 1pm-8pm 696-1220 East Bypass and Hwy. 30. Service Road Going South - V* miles. SAN ANGELO — An Austin psychiatrist is expected to testify Monday in Henry Lee Lucas’ capital murder trial that the confessed murderer was men tally disordered when he re peatedly admitted to a 1979 Georgetown slaying. | United I jORTLy §-time seven yi tenced to life in prison foil Ij exas murder of his 15-year-old it mon-law wife, Frieda T Powell and to 75 years in p for the slaying of an dii Ringgold woman. The 47-year-old drifter and former Michigan mental pa tient is charged with strangling, kidnapping, raping and rob bing an unidentified hitchhiker whose body was found in a cul vert along Interstate 35. Ibing a L pared te ned twe IVTON' fn the fi iu.s.. He pleaded innocent toi i e $ Ban Georgetown slaying whenlj urently mony started last week,butji es WO uli viously has confessed to® ceeding than 150 slayings across e"arres country. State District Judge John Carter also was expected to rule on whether the jury would be informed about a defense wit ness’ felony forgery convictions. The witness signed a time sheet showing Lucas working in Jack sonville, Fla., when the hitch hiker’s body was found on Oct. 31,1979. Prosecutor Ed Walsh milted to jurors five conff Lucas made concerning hitchhiker’s slaying, botham said Lucas learn tails of the woman's reading a police docm about it. deaik Higginbotham also has! Lucas simply told authoij Tievt If you’re a senior and have the promise of a $10,000 careenoriented job, do you know how many good reasons there are for you to apply for the American Express® Card? You guessed it. Lots. 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SM Look for an application on campus* ©American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 1984 Defense attorneys Don Hig ginbotham and Parker McCul lough argue Lucas falsely con fessed last year to the slaying out of a sense of remorse and while suffering a severe mental disorder. sinif what he believed they wan!| hear. Lucas also was influence of Thorazine whf confessed, defense attorney gue. “Mr. Lucas has told me on a number of different times that what he wishes is the death pen alty,” Austin psychologist Tom Kubiszyn said Friday. He de scribed Lucas as a “chrpnic schi zophrenic” with “oversimplified perceptions.” Lucas already has been sen- “He has a capacity tot times completely compl and at other times to be t pletely resistant,’’ Kubisj said, adding Lucas resisted] frustrating the person wtr" 1 : det happens to be dealing with. I Kubiszyn said Lucas t authority figures, butwasn apt to use passive means o‘ sistance against them ra| than showing signs of a® sive behavior. 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